"I know a con artist when I see one, and I saw a con artist that day," Rep.
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And as in Fingersmith, The Handmaiden is about what happens when a female con artist conspires with a male con artist to pose as a servant to a rich young heiress.
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I can spot a con artist from a mile away.
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Try to analyze yourself the way a con artist would.
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And the guru turns out to be a con artist?
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Your cheap misleading lease you truly are a con artist.
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His lawyers have portrayed Constand as a gold-digging con artist.
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Trump is corrupt, racist, relentlessly dishonest, and a veteran con artist.
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Carl Reiner also reappears as Saul Bloom, an elderly con artist.
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And so, like a con artist, I pretended not to need.
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There was a even time Claure called Legere a con artist.
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With my good eye, I see Trump is a con-artist.
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Oh, and long con artist Albert Finney acts as shady puppetmaster.
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After that, the con artist reaches into his bag of tricks.
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You persuade people that he's a con artist, and they're his marks.
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The USA was robbed by rich campaign donors and con artist Senators.
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Morgan traveled with her husband as a con artist and card shark.
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Is he intelligent and knowledgeable, or just a really good con artist?
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Diderot's career as a con artist and freeloader to a shameful end.
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Who knew a con artist could have such a way with words?
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Blanche's friends considered inferior and a con artist, broke up with her, the
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A con artist doesn't even need to do much to capitalise on it.
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When no one is trustworthy, you might as well trust a con artist.
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Is he a cynic or a sucker, a romantic or a con artist?
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Taylor recently joined Con Artist Collective, and he works with experimental screen printing.
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It became quickly apparent that my new "friend" was nothing but a con artist.
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A key part of being a good con artist is having a good disguise.
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Jackson, a budding con artist, has created a money-making scheme: fake ghost-hunting.
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Tired of con artist robots, no one picks up the phone for strangers anymore.
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Georgie Arce was a kid from the neighborhood who later became a con artist.
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Constand was a "con artist," they argued, who wanted a piece of Cosby's fortune.
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"Berlin Station" explores nationalism in Germany; Michelle Dockery returns as a destructive con artist.
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"What we are dealing with here, my friends, is a con artist," Rubio said.
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And even that con artist character is there because he's been conned by somebody.
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Constand is a con artist, they argued, who wanted a piece of Cosby's fortune.
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"The con artist heist movie is the pleasure of seeing how clever people do clever things to earn a little slice of the pie," said Tara Isabella Burton, a former Vox staffer and the author of a con artist novel, last summer.
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But being good has never come naturally to the con artist or her assassin boyfriend.
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Her new employees weren't about to let a con artist spoil their route to normalcy.
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" Other cast members also vocalized their concerns, with one adding that he's "a con artist.
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WASHINGTON — They've dubbed Donald Trump a con artist, an embarrassment, a phony and a fraud.
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He's a fraud and a con artist, and he's been lying to us for years.
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Instead, Meehan was a con artist determined to ruin her life and steal her fortune.
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That can be like an invitation to a con artist looking for an easy mark.
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And, depending on who you ask, he's either a motivational hustler or a con artist.
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Was he special to you at all, or was he just an average con artist?
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You want to negotiate with that man and say he&aposs a cold, cruel con artist.
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And then you have this other con artist, [Michael] Avenatti, come out with another beauty today.
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Melissa McCarthy plays a con artist in her acclaimed new movie Can You Ever Forgive Me?
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HE GOES ON TO SAY, YOU ARE A TRULY GREAT – YOU TRULY ARE A CON ARTIST.
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Rubio framed the issue as Trump the con artist bilking working people out of their money.
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That's understandable, as Duke is now an ex-con, while Trump is merely a con artist.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) as a "con artist" for his previous comments on his military service.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), calling him a "con artist" for previous statements on his military service.
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CBS said "The Office" actor Rainn Wilson will play con artist Harry Mudd in one episode.
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"Sadly, many are realizing Trump is a con artist who doesn't have their interests at heart."
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Donald Trump is a con-artist, using the White House as his own personal cash machine.
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So how did such an obvious con artist get a reputation for seriousness and fiscal probity?
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Strictly speaking, Norman is a con artist, a spinner of exaggerations, half-truths and outright lies.
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Not that it was easy, of course — a cornered con artist can be a very dangerous thing.
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But the moment you truly start to believe that, the con artist has scored his first victory.
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Dockery has taken on a new role as con artist Letty Raines in the drama Good Behavior.
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She will also star as a con artist in a TNT drama called "Good Behavior" this fall.
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Name Withheld Your worry that this woman could be marrying a con artist is a legitimate one.
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He's not a habitual con artist, because he has a faithful clientele he doesn't want to deceive.
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He comes off like a classic con artist, as smooth and consistent as his beloved Mr. Ripley.
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But then Esther reconnects with Jonah Smallwood, the small-time con artist who was her first crush.
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Roemer has appeared in The Event, Hawaii Five-0 and films like The Con Artist and Fired Up!
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An emerging picture paints McFarland as being the con artist mastermind behind the luxury festival-turned-Battle Royale.
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Take a look at who is playing the con artist, the skeptics, and the victims within this story.
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Organizers and cops believe the con artist went so far as to forge Ed's signature on a contract.
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Now the woman is Merry Mansfield, a con artist, who rear-ends cars for kidnappers for a living.
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" Factual inaccuracies: "You are required by law to prove to your shareholders that you're not a con artist.
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Mr. Rubio, who once called Mr. Trump a "con artist" wholly unfit to be president, now backs him.
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If you used a wire transfer to pay a con artist, you should contact the wire transfer company.
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They argued she was a "con artist" and a liar who was obsessed with Cosby's fame and money.
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It has also opened up a huge debate over whether Caroline or Natalie is the bigger con artist.
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And Manafort responded like a true con artist — by essentially saying that you shouldn't believe your lying eyes.
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" He promised to stand up to Trump, a fellow New Yorker, calling him a "bully" and a "con artist.
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Expanding the scope beyond her own story, Ellin seeks to uncover the machinations of con artist relationships in Duped.
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Either Sean Murray is a con artist who knowingly manipulated fans, or players are brain dead victims of marketing.
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When not going to middle school he works part-time for his mentor, a fake psychic and con-artist.
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Of course, watching the show isn't the only way to see how this particular con artist tale plays out.
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But I would much more prefer not to turn over the party to a con artist like Donald Trump.
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After an 18-month investigation, local investigators concluded that he's just a con artist with a prolific track record.
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When several mammals go missing, she teams up with a con artist fox (Jason Bateman) to crack the case.
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They've called Donald Trump a "con artist" and a "fraud" and said he lacks the temperament to be president.
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His defense attorneys argued Tuesday that Constand was a con artist who was obsessed with Cosby's fame and money.
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Then, Perrin revealed he had actually out-conned the con artist, and told them he was donating the money.
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He finds his father, a con artist, and loses his arm trying to keep him from leaving Finn again.
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Richard Blumenthal a "phony Vietnam con artist" after the Connecticut lawmaker voiced support for investigating Trump's ties to Russia.
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They called Andrea Constand a "con artist" and a liar who made up the story to swindle his money.
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Opinion The testimony of a notorious con artist and jailhouse informant could mean the difference between life and death.
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His delusions of grandeur make him vulnerable to big business, the government, and a con artist named Brent Skiles.
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Picture a faithful family man, not a serial sexual assaulter, a successful businessman, not a cheat and con artist.
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"I think this man at the head of your country is a con artist," the British-born Harington added.
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Then, for 2013's American Hustle, Bale put on 43 pounds for the role of con artist Irving Rosenfeld.
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"You can argue that con-artist crimes affect more people than murder," said Javier Leiva, the creator and host.
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Since you wrote the book, do you have a favorite con artist that's operated within the past few years?
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" She added that plunging into her sexy, contemporary role as Letty Dobesh, a thief and con artist, was "very freeing.
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Turns out, he was a con artist and he didn't, and now he's coming after me for all my money.
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The con artist formerly known as Adam is leaving with more money ($700 million) than the firm is currently worth.
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They include the rivals who denounce Trump as a con artist but promise to vote for him in the fall.
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I am in a contract position and have been increasingly asked to do the duties of our workplace con artist.
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And of course the whole story begins with that lengthy prologue from the point of view of a con artist.
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Along the way he encounters, among other things, a con artist and a chicken that can play tick-tack-toe.
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One of the most prolific jailhouse informants in U.S. history is also a con artist with a long criminal record.
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Obama noted that Rubio called Trump a "con artist" while the two were battling it out in the GOP primaries.
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Michelle Dockery ("Downton Abbey") plays Letty, a seductive thief and con artist who struggles to put her demons behind her.
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Between her and Trump in the White House — we have a con artist president — con artists have really gone mainstream.
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The episode seems to tease viewers with the possibility that Svetlana is actually the con artist that Fiona thinks she is.
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The Hustle opens with two-bit con artist Penny (Rebel Wilson) catfishing a boorish man in a New York City bar.
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Interesting to watch Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut talking about hoax Russian collusion when he was a phony Vietnam con artist!
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She's a con artist with an iron will, a survivor through and through who thinks through the angles of every conversation.
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They believed Hunter, an actress and theater director from London, was a con artist with an elaborate plot to become famous.
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Rise of Io is the start of a new trilogy that will follow Ella Patel, a thief, con-artist, and smuggler.
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Natalia denied being a con artist during her Dr. Phil interview, an exclusive clip from which is featured on PEOPLE above.
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She plays a con artist, just out of prison, who tries to prevent a hit man from carrying out his job.
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The Florida senator went on several times to repeat his warning that the Republican presidential front-runner is a con artist.
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The woman started calling her a "crook" and "con artist" and said that she kidnapped kids and exploited families, Scheff said.
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She also recently premiered a movie, Like Me, at SXSW in which she plays an (con) artist in the millennial age.
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Interesting to watch Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut talking about hoax Russian collusion when he was a phony Vietnam con artist!
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Jimmy has the soul of a con artist, and it's already thriving in ways it never would at a corporate firm.
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"He is the con artist extraordinaire and the liar par excellence," Mr. Moffat told The New York Times before going on.
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He surrounded, still surrounds himself, with persons who are somewhat shady, who are just like him: corrupt, a con-artist, grifter.
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" When Rubio and Trump were running for President, they were contentious opponents: Rubio was "Little Marco"; Trump was a "con artist.
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Instead of being praised as a straight-shooter, I was called a gold-digger, a con artist, and a pathological liar.
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"Good Behavior," a noirish new series beginning on Tuesday on TNT, about a sultry con artist, has a built-in pitch.
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In court, defense attorney Tom Mesereau dismissed Constand as a "pathological liar" and a "con artist" who was after Cosby's money.
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His story about playing chess against a con artist in Washington Square Park signaled a change of thinking about his approach.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) as a "phony Vietnam con artist," referencing a controversy where the lawmaker misspoke about his military record.
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Lawyers for Cosby called Constand a "con artist" during his trial even as five other women who have accused Cosby testified.
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Instead of being praised as a straight shooter, I was called a gold digger, a con artist, and a pathological liar.
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Cultural Studies These days, the con artist is as much a cultural figure as the antagonist of our personal horror stories.
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The Nick that's up to no good in this new show is a teenage con artist (Siena Agudong) out for revenge.
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" (Fortune) • How a woman accused of being a con artist duped a bank out of $100,000: "She understood the financial jargon.
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His 2012 documentary "The Imposter," about the shape-shifting con artist Frederic Bourdin, was as manipulative and deceptive as its sly subject.
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" —Andreea Pausan (Amazon) "Nahri is a clever con artist, with strange healing powers, who soon realizes she may not be completely human.
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Rubio has hammered Trump as a "con artist," pointing to his hiring of undocumented immigrants on construction projects and his namesake university.
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We do know he isn't likely to talk politics — calling Trump a con artist seems to have been a one-time thing.
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"I think this man at the head of your country is a con artist," the British-born star added at the time.
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"Another former staffer put it differently: "The first conversation I had with Ted I left thinking, 'This guy is a con artist.
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Before polls closed in Alaska, the final state of the night, Rubio called the frontrunner a "con artist" as the crowd cheered.
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One con artist I write about, Matthew Brown, loves to create Wikipedia entries and social media profiles, all linking to one another.
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It was obvious from the beginning that he was a "con artist" — so declared Marco Rubio, who has nonetheless endorsed his candidacy.
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The second legal team was more aggressive, depicting Ms. Constand as a calculating "con artist" and the other accusers as money-driven.
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"The party of Lincoln and Reagan is on the verge of being taken over by a con artist," he told the crowd.
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The con artist said the investments would be repaid along with a percentage of the profits from the sale of the sculpture.
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All right, perhaps not "grown up," since we're still talking about a narcissistic con artist of adolescent fecklessness and zero self-knowledge.
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"Guys, we have a con artist as the front-runner of the Republican Party," he said at a campaign event in Dallas.
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In a March 3, 2016, speech, Romney called Trump a "phony," a "fraud" and a "con artist" who would erode conservative values.
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Lopez also appeared as a stripper and con artist in "Hustlers," and received a nomination for best supporting actress for her role.
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He said Trump was a hypocrite and a con artist who's also a terrible businessman, and even seemed to question his sanity.
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He has called Trump a "bully" and a "con artist" and criticized Trump administration positions on immigration, climate change and social welfare.
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A con artist who claims he is the son of a famed leader of the Irish Republican Army lost his lawyer on Tuesday.
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Chuck was forever terrified his younger brother would ruin the prestige of the all-holy law by being his old con artist self.
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SWALWELL: Neil, I think he&aposs a cruel, cold con artist who only changed the policy because people, Republicans and Democrats, spoke up.
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Or, if you're anything like us, you just live and breathe con-artist stories à la Anna Delvey, Billy McFarland, and Caroline Calloway.
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In 1955 "Shree 420" told of a small-time con artist who comes to Bombay and learns its soul-destroying lessons too late.
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In a string of tweets, Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure said the company had been conducting test trials and called Legere a con artist.
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" RELATED: Businesses could pose conflicts of interest for a President Trump "We face this from Donald Trump, a candidate and notorious con artist.
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The only way to describe it would be to compare him to a con artist, though he conned us without necessarily taking anything.
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"We're on the verge of having someone take over the conservative movement and the Republican Party who is a con artist," he said.
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Check. This month, Disney released its latest offering, Zootopia, a film about a con-artist fox named Nick Wilde, voiced by Jason Bateman.
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Whether you think Hubbard was a genius or a con artist, he was, objectively, a special person who impacted a lot of lives.
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She's not being used by Sick Boy (who, now that he's a respectable con artist instead of a heroin addict, goes by Simon).
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Last week's con-artist comedy The Hustle rounds out the top five with an estimated $6.1 million in ticket sales across 3,077 theaters.
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When we organized events against Mr. Trump, Breitbart amplified the Trump Foundation-funded con artist James O'Keefe, who attacked our firm and coalition.
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Mesereau has attempted to poke holes in her story, arguing that Constand was a "con artist" who obsessed over Cosby's money and fame.
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Trump earlier Monday accused Blumenthal of being a "phony Vietnam con artist," the latest instance of the president bringing up the 2010 controversy.
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Rubio, of course, ended up endorsing Trump's election even while pointedly not retracting the accusation that the president-elect is a con artist.
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Maybe Donald Trump isn't just some two-bit con artist who lucked his way into the White House thanks to an overconfident opponent.
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Shonda Rhimes is producing a series for Netflix all about Delvey, titled Inventing Anna, with Ozark's Julia Garner as the famous con artist.
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"Where a normal person would start to get edgy or concerned or worried and show their nervousness, the con artist won't," she said.
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That's why Rubio has been more aggressively attacking Trump of late, pressing his case that the billionaire is a "con artist" hoodwinking conservatives.
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Rather than portray him as a bully or a clown or (disingenuously) as a liberal, they called him a con artist and a manipulator.
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Things went downhill quickly, with Legere accusing Claure of hitting copy and paste, and Claure calling Legere a con artist and a drama queen.
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Before he left the Republican primary race, Rubio called Trump a "con artist" whose business empire was built on inherited money and foreign labor.
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Asked to compare Mr Trump with his fictional villain, Roth said Lindbergh was imposing, a heroic aviator, and Mr Trump "just a con artist".
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In Charlie, I finally found a dog who was older, tougher, more clued up—a charming canine con-artist with a feather-light heart.
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Meanwhile, Merry turns out to be an ever more gifted con artist, who decides Yancy needs help when the book's prime lunatic comes along.
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In this case, Cosby's defense attorney Tom Mesereau has argued that Constand was a "con artist" who was obsessed with Cosby's money and fame.
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The con artist heist movie is the pleasure of seeing how clever people do clever things to earn a little slice of the pie.
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A couple of the other servers also show recidivist tendencies, like the former con artist, dressed in red, who haunts the inn's dice table.
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Together they produced award-winning investigative journalism, including pieces in which Ms. Goldin would go undercover to help expose some crook or con artist.
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Life was simpler when the con artist would just use known buzz words like "Nigerian prince" in their email to coax you for information.
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In fact, many of her roles could be described as "palatable" and "uncontroversial," save for, perhaps, her portrayal of a con artist in American Hustle.
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Lee is caustic, relentlessly unpleasant, and an unapologetic (title aside) con artist — but McCarthy also makes her endlessly compelling and ultimately something close to relatable.
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" The legal warning did not deter Daugherty from writing his book, which accused Boback of being a con artist and his company of "mental abuse.
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Is Trump just an arrogant, megalomaniacal con artist willing to say whatever he thinks will deceive the American people and help him win the election?
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You'd think she would have realized by now that she is just not a good con artist, but she really wasn't ready to give up.
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The ads have portrayed Trump as a misogynist, a liberal hypocrite, a draft-dodging coward, a con-artist, and a borderline criminal with mob ties.
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The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the United States Senate.
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What's more ... BIG3 says the head of the Champions League is "a serial con-artist, fraudster and ponzi-schemer" who blames his failures on others.
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See how con artist Troy Stratos finally met his match on an all new episode of "American Greed" on Monday, July 10 at 10 p.m.
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"Interesting to watch Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut talking about hoax Russian collusion when he was a phony Vietnam con artist!" he wrote on Twitter.
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" He says that the business plans of Facebook and Google have served to "elevate the role of the con artist to be central in society.
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In his speech on Tuesday, Rubio claimed: Five days ago, we began to explain to the American people that Donald Trump is a con artist.
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The problem is, Beaumont-sur-Mer already has a resident con artist: Josephine (Anne Hathaway), a high-class scammer with a suspect accent, and impeccable taste.
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Richard Blumenthal on Twitter Monday, calling him a "phony Vietnam con artist" just minutes after Blumenthal appeared on CNN's "New Day" to discuss the Russia investigation.
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Rubio labeled Trump a "con artist" and mocked the size of Trump's hands in what became a surprising locker-room attack from the normally composed Rubio.
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That Trump, a liberal con artist, is the guy who most benefits from the legitimate criticisms of mainstream media over the years is unbelievable to me.
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Much like the podcast before it, the eight-episode limited series will follow the romantic relationship between Debra Newell (Britton) and con artist John Meehan (Bana).
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WE'RE READY TO GO. SOMEBODY WHO DOES THAT TO ME AND WHO BASICALLY HAS THE AUDACITY TO SAY WE'RE COPYING AND PASTING IS A CON ARTIST.
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" In response, the president tweeted, "Interesting to watch Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut talking about hoax Russian collusion when he was a phony Vietnam con artist!
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"The party of Lincoln and Reagan will never be held hostage by a con artist," the senator from Florida told supporters in Miami on Tuesday night.
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"Well, I had hoped in this process we would have -- the voters would wake up and see what Donald Trump is, a con artist," Rubio said.
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"Five days ago, we began to explain to the American people that Donald Trump is a con artist," Rubio told supporters in Florida on Tuesday night.
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One con-artist previously told Motherboard he would ask legal sellers to send him photos of weapons next to a piece of paper with his username.
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No matter how much Trump lies — no matter how clearly he's shown to be a con artist and huckster — his supporters just entrench themselves ever more.
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Richard Pearson, a con artist who forged works in the style of Norman Cornish (1919–2014), was sentenced to three years and seven months in prison.
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Janney plays the wife of a Manhattan art dealer whose life is upended by a young con artist claiming to be the son of Sidney Poitier.
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But Kristine Barnett told Daily Mail Online that Natalia was a "sociopath" and a "con-artist" who was actually an adult woman who terrorized their family.
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During his April trial, Cosby's lawyers sought to paint Constand as a gold digger and "con artist," noting that she had previously been paid a settlement.
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A skilled con artist will use every tool at his or her disposal to get you to act on your emotions instead of cold, hard analysis.
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And I have been weirdly pummeled on the platform by users calling Ms. Ressa a con artist since I posted that I was speaking to her.
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Her mother was vicious and controlling, her father a feckless con artist who sent her to college primarily so he could steal $40,000 of her student loans.
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News ranked Valderrama as one of the "Top 303 Worst Boyfriends in Hollywood," alongside John Mayer, Anne Hathaway's con-artist ex Raffaello Follieri, and uh, Mel Gibson.
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It's hard to tell if he's a con artist or a sucker who has somehow fallen for his own scam, and it may not make a difference.
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Cosby's layer slammed Constand as a "con artist" and a "so-called victim" during the defense's opening statement, describing her as an opportunist after money and fame.
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Lead attorney Tom Mesereau called Andrea Constand, the victim in the case, a "con artist" and "pathological liar" and grilled another woman on her past drug use.
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They also injected this story, about a drunk misanthropic con artist who poses as Santa to rob department stores on Christmas Eve, with some serious daddy issues.
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Daniella Pineda (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) will portray con artist and rogue Faye Valentine, and Alex Hassell (Suburbicon, The Isle) will play Vicious, Spiegel's vengeful ex-partner.
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" Rubio hasn't stopped since, slamming Trump as a "con artist" and also matching the personal nature of Trump's attacks, saying Saturday, "Donald Trump likes to sue people.
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" And The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson writes that Trump's "opponents in the primaries were right to call him a con artist, a narcissist and a pathological liar.
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Hired by a con artist named Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, d'Oliva targeted Cardinal de Rohan, a former ambassador who was keen to curry the queen's favor.
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They think he's a callow con artist who's manipulated grassroots conservatives in a way that does no good for the movement but does advance his personal ambitious.
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A career con artist who often pretended to be a military veteran while engaging in schemes across the country was convicted on Wednesday for a recent charade.
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You've written about how when a con artist is a really compelling storyteller, people are more likely to believe them and therefore rationalize away any warning signs.
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She really struck a note for me because she is also a prototypical con artist, and you can actually see tons of parallels between her and Billy.
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" Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads This week, Con Artist Collective launches Funktional Art, a showcase that combines the "tenuous space between fine art and the everyday.
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It grabs on to it, jumping backward to 2002, when Saul was Jimmy McGill, a small-time con artist trying to go straight as an attorney in Albuquerque.
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The unavoidable conclusion is that Rubio, Ted Cruz, and John Kasich are okay with putting a con artist who is unfit to be president in the Oval Office.
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Eventually, he's revealed to be a con-artist, and he becomes the menacing center of the story — terrifying not only Newell, but also the people who surround her.
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The Creation Of Magnises: 2014 Billy McFarland, the co-founder of Fyre Fest, was a born entrepreneur (or con-artist, according the interviews in Hulu's Fyre festival doc).
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Even though he has a coldhearted con artist for a father and even though he attempts to save the elephants, it's difficult to muster much concern about him.
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One by one, Republican leaders who had criticized Trump decided to forget all the things they said about Trump being a con artist, utterly amoral, a pathological liar.
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Hillary Clinton's followers will fume that yet another piece of evidence showing their opponent is a selfish, unprincipled con artist has come forth without finally ending this thing.
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The seminarian and the con artist encountered each other on Craigslist again a year later, when Mr. Wright posted an ad looking for a tour guide in Tijuana.
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The defense has portrayed Ms. Constand, 45, as a con artist who preyed on a lonely, older, wealthy entertainer and hatched a plot to siphon money from him.
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Reviews of Zootopia, Disney's new animated detective story about a rabbit cop, a con artist fox, and the animal-filled city they call home, have been overwhelmingly positive.
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" Rubio is referring to a series of insults in the past week about the size of Trump's hands, about his tan and about calling him a "con artist.
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Zakardas was able to fool even her own doctor, who allowed the con artist to sit in on her examinations and access the medical records of other patients.
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NIGERIAN PRINCE Sent against his will to live with his aunt in Nigeria, an American teenager (Antonio J. Bell) starts working with his con-artist cousin (Chinaza Uche).
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It's a con-artist film — poor family connives its way into jobs serving a younger, wealthy quartet — and the con rides an elevator from comically to tragically desperate.
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The truth is that this old man — caught with car parts patched together to look like a small radioactive-material container — was no more than a con artist.
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He added that "this guy could have been playing me, that he was the best con artist in the world," but said he ultimately believes in Hurt's innocence.
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Howard ultimately proved to be a con artist, and nothing he gathered from his supposed investigation could be corroborated or acted on, leading to his dismissal, Musk testified.
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That said, to be a really good con artist still takes a certain amount of — I hate to say "skill" — but a certain amount of skill and talent.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 42%Synopsis: "Death Defying Acts" concocts a fictional romance between famous illusionist Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) and impoverished Scottish con artist Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones).
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The biopic also stars Courtney B. Vance, who plays Sir Lord Keenan Kester Cofield, a slick Southern con artist who tries to insert himself into the Lacks' legal matters.
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Rubio has announced his support of the man he repeatedly called a con artist unfit for office — a hurtful and disappointing turn of events for Rubio's substantial evangelical following.
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While Hollywood is busy cooking up a Netflix version of the scammer story that kicked off the summer, it's actually been dealing with a con artist of its own.
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Whereas Trump is a literal con artist and a textbook case of a deadbeat dad, Paul Ryan—for all his legislative shortcomings—is by most accounts an exemplary father.
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But amidst the drama surrounding illicit money, escaped criminals, sex rings, drug selling, and crumbling friendships, I was drawn to one platinum-blonde, steely-eyed con artist: Sick Boy.
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Just before his execution, the once-respected pharmacist turned con artist, who was born Herman Webster Mudgett, confessed to killing at least 27 people, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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He suggested Friday morning that Trump was a "con artist" who was worried about wetting his pants and mocked the serial tweeter's spelling before a delighted crowd in Texas.
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While some in the Agency were "humbled" by the film, others were quick to declare it ordinary trickery from a con artist using techniques from stage magic and mentalism.
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The aim is to define Trump early as a con artist with a history of disrespecting women, and to frame him as too risky to be commander-in-chief.
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The actress plays a con artist and stripper in the movie, which is based on a 2015 New York magazine article called "The Hustlers at Scores" by Jessica Pressler.
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But he saved his thorniest barbs for Senator Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican who endorsed Mr. Trump after labeling him a "dangerous con artist" during their bitter primary battle.
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Norristown, Pennsylvania (CNN)Bill Cosby's defense attorney in opening statements Tuesday described Andrea Constand as a "so-called victim" who was really a con artist after his client's money.
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Lizbet is deeply devout and moral, but her father is a con artist; when he's imprisoned for accidentally making it rain mice, it's up to Lizbet to free him.
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He was a drug addict, he was a con-artist, womanizer, but he still chose to trust someone else to build my puzzle before he screwed up my own.
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More notably, though, he was also joined by a man who once called Mr. Trump "a con artist" and said he would "never get control of" the Republican Party.
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Claim to Fame Ms. Bellizzi is a stylist and costume designer who worked on the film "Good Time," transforming Robert Pattinson into Connie Nikas, who plays a con artist.
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He has depicted Andrew Breitbart as a courageous activist in a war zone, Hillary Clinton as a con artist, and congressional Democrats as driving Jesus out of the Capitol.
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But in fact, that person is a con artist who learned about your love for cats, or Jane Austen, or the U.S. military by reading your social media posts.
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A hard-boiled, seductive con artist (Michelle Dockery) who's trying to regain custody of her son stumbles into a relationship with a softhearted, sexy hit man (Juan Diego Botto).
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Cosby's defense team, which has portrayed Constand as a money-hungry con artist, aimed to cast doubt on Constand's claims the pills left her so impaired she could not resist.
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She immersed herself in the Dada and Surrealist scenes of New York before her divorce from a con artist led her to Paris to found her own house in 1927.
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Bravo's newest show, based on a true story and its accompanying Los Angeles Times-Wondery podcast Dirty John, centers around John, a con artist who tricks successful women into marriage.
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In closing arguments, she said, she focused on Cosby as the real con artist -- countering the defense team's portrayal of the victim as a gold digger after the defendant's fortune.
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Margot and Reggie (their swarthy third man) want Ben to hop on a plane to Shanghai so he won't be a lovelorn liability to their crazy con-artist trio anymore.
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The former candidate, who repeatedly called Trump a "con artist" during his own failed presidential campaign, now falls staunchly in the "Never Hillary" camp and shared as much via Twitter.
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"Good, clean fun" used to be the calling card for "The Music Man," Meredith Willson's musical from 1957, about a con artist who sells clarinets and trombones to credulous rubes.
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He called him a con artist and said among other things that he had small hands, a charge that Trump took to mean as questioning the size of his manhood.
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In one extreme case, a Northern California con artist played on half a dozen communities' fascination with the film business to pull off an elaborate scam lasting nearly 20 years.
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Ponzi schemes, named for con artist Charles Ponzi, are fraudulent schemes that involve paying earlier investors with more recent investors' money and representing it as a return on the investment.
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The story focuses on Dockery's Letty, a con artist just paroled from prison, whose life takes a dramatic turn when she winds up in a hotel room at the wrong time.
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Britton may be single, but it's far better than the situation her Dirty John character Debra is stuck in: a whirlwind marriage-turned-nightmare with con artist John Meehan (Eric Bana).
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Earlier this week, we spoke to Burton about Social Creature's fascinating origin story, the enduring pull of the con artist, and whether the New York described in her book actually exists.
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And the friendly old man telling me about his dailylife, what books he was reading and so on was none other than the greatest con artist of all time, Bernie Madoff.
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In opening statements, attorney Tom Mesereau called her a "con artist" and a "so-called victim" who invented a story of assault to cash in and solve her own financial problems.
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At Bill Cosby's retrial for sexual assault in April, one of his attorneys called his accuser Andrea Constand a "pathological liar" and "con artist" who had only accused him for money.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Friday called front-runner Donald Trump a "con artist," pledging to expose the real estate mogul and pressure him to reveal his finances.
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Four years later, the career con-artist is currently awaiting sentencing in Miami after pleading guilty to impersonating a foreign government official, identity theft and fraud, as the Washington Post reported.
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As we pick someone to run against a con artist continuously reinventing his own reality, it's imperative we look towards truth, science, and the real, hard work of solving complex societal issues.
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If you're going the con artist route, though, be aware that most of the majors offered by this accredited college have a religious bent—like theology, ministry, and whatever "worship arts" is.
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It's basically the exact formula of The Mentalist (a psychic who helps the FBI), and Castle (a novelist who helps the FBI), and White Collar (a con artist who helps the FBI).
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But when she messaged the host to double-check that was still OK shortly before arriving, the host accused her of being a "con artist" and canceled the reservation, according to KTLA.
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She was consumed by the tabloids, exploited as disaster porn, and, because of this, faced an uphill battle to be taken seriously when suing the con artist who was peddling revenge porn.
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Rubio admitted this week that he made a mistake in taunting Trump over the size of his body parts, but he didn't press his critique on Trump's "con artist" business record, either.
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Craig Carton is adamant he's not the scumbag con artist he's being made out to be -- claiming he's an innocent victim who was set up by a group of very bad people.
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When the bank finally finds out the check is fake and takes the money from the customer's account, the con artist will have disappeared, and the victim will be in the red.
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BONUS GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman: --"The House Mother and the Fraudster -- The Convicted Con Artist Of The Winter White House," by BuzzFeed's Tarini Parti in West Palm Beach, Fla.
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It is also the name with which Dajjal, or the Antichrist, announces himself in the Islamic religion — meaning that Dehbi's character is already outed as a con artist from the get-go.
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They plant the seed in an otherwise confounding flashback opener, in which Jimmy breaks into the ruins of his parents' corner store with his old con-artist wingman, Marco Pasternak (Mel Rodriguez).
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Alex is a joy of a protagonist, a con artist with an iron will who's always working some angle, but what's most compelling about this book is Bardugo's ghost-ridden, luxurious Yale.
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" One artist who was owed $1,200 for a mural she painted at Northside Festival in 2018 told Offenhartz, "Danny has taken ghosting to a whole new level and proven he's a con artist.
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But when she messaged the host to double-check whether it was still OK shortly before arriving, the host accused her of being a "con artist" and canceled the reservation, according to KTLA.
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At the time a Republican presidential primary rival, Rubio called Trump a "con artist" during an interview on CBS after calling him out face-to-face during a CNN debate the night before.
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LAFAYETTE, Indiana — Depending on whom you believe, Natalia Grace — a Ukrainian-born orphan with a rare form of dwarfism — is either a sweet 15-year-old or a 83-year-old con artist.
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Mr. Cardoso said he offered to pay for the ticket, even though he thought the man was a con artist who had been lying in wait for someone to pick up the card.
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"Over several months, the con artist convinced the elderly man that they were in a long-distance romantic relationship, and proposed an opportunity to support an art gallery in Florida," the statement said.
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One of the items on display is an addendum for an affidavit from Salinger's 1982 lawsuit against Steven Kunes, a con artist who attempted to sell People magazine a fake interview with Salinger.
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Cosby claimed the encounter was consensual, and his lawyers branded her a "con artist" who framed the comedian to get a big payday — a $3.4 million settlement she received over a decade ago.
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Lawyers for Cosby called accuser Andrea Constand, who gave permission for her name to be reported publicly, a "con artist" even as five other women who have accused Cosby testified at the trial.
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But NBA security says it can explain ... telling ESPN Ayesha's father bared a resemblance to a con artist named David Aminzadeh who had been using fake credentials to sneak into major sporting events.
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Bill Cosby's attorney on Tuesday sought to paint the woman he's accused of raping as greedy "con artist," and that at the end of the trial, jurors will "gladly" find the comedian not guilty.
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"I haven't heard from Tamra since she told me that I was con artist, that she was better than me and that I was old," Gunvalson told pal Kelly Dodd earlier in the episode.
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On Friday, Netflix announced a new addition to its original television roster: Melissa Joan Hart's sitcom No Good Nick, which centers on a family that unwittingly welcomes a teenage con artist into their home.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 56%Summary: With notes of comedy and drama, the crime thriller "Focus," follows con artist Nicky Spurgeon (Will Smith) as he attracts the attention of low-level grifter Jess Barrett (Robbie).
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Mr. Cosby's new crop of lawyers has been aggressive in portraying Ms. Constand as a desperate "con artist" who schemed to get one over on a rich but lonely man because she needed money.
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The first thing to note is that the accusation that Trump is a con artist is made up of several different claims and types of claims, some of which Trump himself does not deny.
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The Ponzi scheme con artist had Spirit Airlines, but the company canceled a day before the sponsorship deadline, so he was sent back to whatever overcrowded, underground privately owned prison he crawled out of.
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The point is that Mr. Rubio was just as much a con artist as Mr. Trump – just not as good at it, which is why, under pressure, he kept repeating the same memorized words.
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But after the Civil War, when many of the traditional verities seem to have broken down, a certain lassitude crept into the American ethic, allowing the professional con artist to stride upon the stage.
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Victims often wire funds overseas or to third-party transfer agents, making it difficult to get the money back and identify the con artist, said Andrew Stolfi, administrator for the Division of Financial Regulation.
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She also explains that she did it because he was an emotionally abusive con artist, who stole her identity and controlled her life and finances while having sex with another woman in her home.
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From "tweet storms" to campaign speeches, Warren has used multiple mediums to paint Trump as a con artist who is set on bilking Americans to enrich himself, often provoking angry responses from the nominee.
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In many ways, the archetypal grifter or con artist, someone who takes advantage of the rich or at least well-off by posing as something they are not, is as American as apple pie.
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Other characters, like their mother Debra Newell (Connie Britton), were reluctant to acknowledge that John could be anything but a charming surgeon who worked for Doctors With Borders — and not, say, a dangerous con artist.
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RELATED: Marco Rubio: Not going to turn over GOP to 'con artist' Donald Trump He said the race is "in a different place now" -- with voters facing a "binary choice" between Trump and Hillary Clinton.
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Only time will tell if McFarland will one day receive his own Netflix series a la NYC grifter Anna Delvey or a Matt Damon and Ben Affleck produced film like the McDonald's Monopoly con artist.
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But the largest ovations came for Kelly Marie Tran, who plays mechanic Rose Tico, and Billy Dee Williams, who returns to the series as con artist Lando Calrissian after last playing the character in 1983.
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"What people are saying is, 'Fight as hard as you can to save the party of [former Presidents] Lincoln and Reagan from a con artist who refuses to criticize the [Ku Klux Klan]," he added.
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Donald Trump is a "con artist," says Marco Rubio — who has promised to enact giant tax cuts, undertake a huge military buildup and balance the budget without any cuts in benefits to Americans over 55.
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"I love the idea of six degrees of separation — that we're all connected somehow, universally — and there are some really human things that drive this play, with the con artist, and the art," she said.
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You can watch Michelle Dockery (of "Downton Abbey" fame) rampage through TNT's "Good Behavior" as a con artist on Sundays; now, she wields a gun in 19th-century New Mexico in this new Netflix series.
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And it had run into a bit of trouble, including the chief financial officer who turned out to be a career con artist who in 23 was arrested after reportedly stealing $22,2300 from its coffers.
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"Trump is a Con Artist" reads one, with another saying "This pic is all you get for $35,000 at Trump University," a reference to complaints from former students that they were ripped off by the company.
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That same reporting process was on full display a few weeks later when James O'Keefe attempted to bait the Post into publishing a false accusation and got himself exposed as the con artist that he is.
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Michael Barnett, 43, and his wife, Kristine, 45, contend they thought they were adopting an 8-year-old child, but now allege Natalia is a "sociopath" and a "con artist" who is actually an adult woman.
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Humiliated, Mr. Schumer had little choice but to tuck his tail between his legs and back down, using a meaningless promise from Mitch McConnell, another con artist, for cover that is as transparent as plastic wrap.
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When Ms. Stone plays Arlie, the Gold Coast con artist, she also has to play moments in which Annie scrapes through Arlie's brilliantined exterior and then other moments in which the two characters seem to merge.
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When Dandy Don O'Keefe, a fellow con artist, tips him off about a more lucrative scam in Los Angeles, Petty hits the road with a hooker who calls herself Tinafey and is too cute for words.
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With Sir Ian as a con artist and Dame Helen as his wealthy mark, it looks a bit more Six Degrees Of Separation than Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and like a sexy, vicious time for all involved.
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This is like having a Wall Street broker trading on inside information to self-identify intentions and suspicious transactions, or asking a con artist to make victims sign a terms of service agreement before they get swindled.
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Senator Rubio, you have taken to calling Mr. Trump a con artist who portrays himself as a hero to working people while he's really been, in your words, "sticking it" to the American workers for 1173 years.
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A producer described the film to Entertainment Weekly as "'Erin Brockovich' meets 'Catch Me if You Can,'" referring to the film that won Ms. Roberts an Oscar and another in which Leonardo DiCaprio played a con artist.
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When they lost money on a bad real estate deal that a friend who turned out to be a con artist suckered them into, it triggered a federal investigation, culminating in Clinton's impeachment for completely unrelated conduct.
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Banged-up guests include Sterling K. Brown's out-of-luck bank robber, saddled with a badly wounded younger brother (Brian Tyree Henry); Charlie Day's abrasive "I don't belong here" con artist; and Sofia Boutella's assassin-in-waiting.
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"I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people," she says during the increasingly desperate search to find "Paul" Poitier (who was based on a real con artist) after he disappears.
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In its first season, this comedy earned raves for its soapy and breakneck tale about a con artist, Maddie, being pursued by three of her victims (two of whom are played by Marianne Rendón and Rob Heaps).
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Near the end of Daryl Gregory's funny and charming new novel, "Spoonbenders," Teddy Telemachus — widower, con artist, card mechanic and unwitting patriarch of a family of psychics — tells a boy that what he does isn't real magic.
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And though primary season rivals like Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) did ultimately endorse Trump, they also pegged him correctly as "completely immoral" (Cruz) and "a con artist" (Rubio), and they've never recanted.
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Based on a true story (and the popular Los Angeles Times podcast of the same name), the titular Dirty John is the ultimate con artist, who charms successful interior designer Debra Newell (Connie Britton) into a quickie marriage.
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While the show is less reliant on flashbacks, the ones we see — like Soso's canvassing days or Maritza's time as a glamorous con artist — provide lenses into who these women are and how desperate their situations have become.
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Looking at 80-year-old Cosby from across the courtroom, Feden called the entertainer a "con artist" and shamed his lawyer, Kathleen Bliss, for her characterizations of the women testifying against Cosby as fame-seeking, promiscuous party girls.
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It doesn't matter how many times we have been told that President Trump is a serial liar, racist, narcissistic con artist, and crusher of small businesses — when these accusations and more are levied in live testimony, it's stunning.
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On eating watermelon in front of white people: "I'm not as free as I thought" How not to get scammed, according to a former con artist Dave Chappelle's Netflix special targets Michael Jackson's accusers, #MeToo, and cancel culture
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Madeline Brewer (The Handmaid's Tale) plays Dawn, a troubled young con artist who is on the outside of the core foursome of the film (Lopez, Wu, Lili Reinhart's Anabelle and Palmer's Mercedes), says she definitely felt that energy.
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An Indiana husband accused with his wife of abandoning their adopted daughter in an apartment alone before fleeing to Canada has spoken out, alleging the daughter is a "sociopath" and a "con artist" who is actually an adult.
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This Life In the Broadway classic "The Music Man," set in 1912, the con artist Harold Hill shows up in River City, Iowa, and attempts to persuade the otherwise contented townspeople that their youth are slipping into degradation.
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The CEO is known for his quirky Twitter personality and dress, for mocking critics and freely using profanity, and for publicly savaging competitors (including WeWork's current executive chairman Marcelo Claure, who in turn called him a "con artist").
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Available on: Mubi Jacques Rivette's nearly 13-hour epic (helpfully broken into eight parts for easier viewing) brings together an acting troupe, a con artist, and a busker who becomes increasingly convinced that a bizarre conspiracy is afoot.
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Another brazen con artist to call Miami home: Haider Zafar, who falsely portrayed himself as the member of a wealthy and influential Pakistani family that owned hotels, textile plants and oil businesses to investors in the Magic City.
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Cosby's new defense lawyers — most notably Tom Mesereau, who won an acquittal in Michael Jackson's 2005 child molestation case — called Constand a "con artist" and "so-called victim," who got close to Cosby because she wanted his money.
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" The exploits of Mr. Wilson — if we can agree to call him that — have drawn comparisons to those of Frank Abagnale Jr., the notorious con artist whose life was chronicled in the 2000 film "Catch Me if You Can.
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Up until this point, there'd been a viable interpretation of Melisandre as a cynic or a con artist, but "Home" clarified that she's meant to be understood as a true believer who is genuinely distraught that her prophecy failed.
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This time, Mr. Cosby's defense team has taken a more aggressive stance toward Ms. Constand, describing her as a "con artist" who engaged in a consensual encounter and then concocted a story of assault to score a big payday.
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Trump is so little concerned with being tagged as a con artist that he openly touts his support by Don King, whose sordid history includes stomping a man to death and bilking the boxers he was supposed to represent.
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While on the hunt for their shared con-artist ex Maddie (Inbar Lavi), Ezra (Rob Heaps) and Richard (Parker Young) are ready to take a walk on the wrong side of the law in the next episode of Imposters.
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Earlier Tuesday, Cosby's lawyer opened the defense's case by portraying Constand as a "con artist" bent on extorting money from the famed comedian, saying she concocted a false story to pay for her education and set up a business.
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She made this David O. Russell con-artist comedy at the height of America's love affair with the rising young talent, and you can feel her putting aside her penchant for precise, sensitive characterizations and just letting it rip.
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"Six Degrees of Separation" — John Guare's play about a wealthy Manhattan couple whose lives are upended by a con artist claiming to be Sidney Poitier's son — was the toast of the town when it had its premiere in 290.
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Dialing one of these "Facebook support" numbers can get you on the line with a con artist (often working in an overseas call center) who may make all sorts of claims about your account security or general computer health.
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I ended up having to stop interviewing the con artist I was writing about halfway through the process of writing the book because I realized that when I met with them, I'd become too sympathetic, because they're really charismatic.
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If you want to put back into The White House someone who looted it when she left and increased her net worth from $0 to $ 350 million by selling out our national security then vote for the great con artist Hillary.
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This time around, the defense team is trying to portray Constand as a con artist who exploited her friendship with the comedian to set the stage for a multimillion-dollar settlement in a civil lawsuit that was based on bogus claims.
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When: Opens Wednesday, May 1613, 2161–229pm Where: Con Artist Collective & Gallery (240 Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan) I have to credit Hyperallergic staff writer Claire Voon — a pigeon aficionado and pin enthusiast— for reinvigorating my interest in enamel collectibles.
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Previously announced as My So-Called Wife, the show stars Israeli-American actress Inbar Lavi (The Last Ship) as persona-shifting con-artist Maddie — who has left a trail of angry exes behind her after robbing them of everything they have.
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The president launched into a lengthy diatribe against Rubio for sticking by with Trump, despite the fact the senator dubbed the businessman a "con artist" who can't be trusted with the nation's nuclear codes during their vicious presidential primary fight.
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Rotten Tomatoes: 95%The Steven Spielberg film — which was based on the real-life story of the legendary con artist — also featured Tom Hanks as FBI Agent Carl Hanratty, who made it his mission to bring Abagnale Jr. to justice.
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The rip-off is a variation of the old advance-fee hustle, in which a con artist persuades a mark, via email, to send money, and then more money, for an investment scheme that will purportedly pay off in the future.
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On the other hand, the Florida Senator seems to have genuinely enjoyed attacking Trump—and since issues no longer seem to be on the table in these debates, he may work in a tiny hands joke or "con artist" jab anyway.
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" Since the original Constitution was written by and for landed white gentlemen, I propose that this so-called great intellectual was actually a clever con artist, perpetuating white male privilege by cloaking his arguments in the legal invention of "originalism.
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He was initially drawn to the intense eroticism of "Fingersmith," about a lesbian con artist in Victorian England, as well as to the English countryside setting, but for his adaptation, he instead set the story in 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea.
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He is far from a subtle guy, but Mr. McConaughey is a sly enough actor to make us wonder whether we're in the company of a fool or a con artist and to make us question whether there's really a difference.
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That's the question asked by this sure-to-be-controversial series about a serene miracle worker (Mehdi Dehbi) who materializes in the Middle East and gathers a devoted following, but opinions vary on whether he's a savior or a con artist.
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Maybe, as an expert con artist, Jean Genet assumed that language, if used with the right combination of refinement and cogency, could elicit a reckoning, just as his writing's resolute, lyrical reenactments of real and imagined experiences validated his existential truths.
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Seeing as how Tracy's past as a con artist with a history of abortions is out in the open, our anti-heroine has little choice but to up the ante and try to kill an actual child who many have witnessed her crimes.
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" Looking ahead to the March 15 primary in Florida, he predicted a home-turf win that will "send the message that the party of Lincoln and Reagan and the presidency of the United States will never be held by a con-artist.
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Possessing as he does the soul of a con artist rather than the pretenses of an intellectual, Trump himself is much better positioned than Bannon to recognize the full potential of "economic nationalism" as a useful distraction tactic but not much more.
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The four Sacha Baron Cohen roles pick it up from there: Morad, alt-right broadcaster Dr. Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr., PhD, lefty pink pussy hat-wearer Dr. Nira Cain-N'Degeocello, and ex-con artist Rick Sherman ("I made one mistake, just fourteen times").
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Jackson's lawyers were able to poke holes in the family's testimonies, and were also able to convince the jury, who already found Janet unlikeable, that she was a "con artist" who had made her children lie on the stand, according to Global News.
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If a known con artist peddles a potion that he claims will make people lose 25 pounds and enjoy a better sex life, we don't just quote the man and a critic; we find ways to signal to readers that he's a fraud.
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Four years later, in 2004, fans of his next musical, the Riviera con-artist caper "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," might have pictured a suave Broadway type, tossing off French pastiche, a comic rap showstopper and a satire of "Oklahoma!" in one boffo score.
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A skeptical CIA agent is assigned to investigate the movement, and much of the series chronicles her attempts to figure out whether al-Masih is actually a divine entity or just a dangerous con artist looking to upend the world's geopolitical order.
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"We are not going to turn over the conservative movement to a con artist who is telling people one thing but has spent 40 years sticking it to working Americans and now claims to be their champion," he said on NBC's "Today" program.
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The movie flopped in a very limited box office run, but by that point, Robbie had already been cast as Will Smith's con artist sidekick/love interest in Focus (2015), a half-baked film that coasts, just barely, on its stars' charisma.
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Michelle Dockery — for six seasons, the frosty Lady Mary on PBS's "Downton Abbey" — heats things up as Letty Raines, a recently paroled con artist and thief who, while burgling a hotel room, overhears a husband hiring a contract killer to murder his wife.
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While Tom Ripley — who as a con artist is able to impersonate all kinds of occupations — may be the apex of this, a great example of how it works is in Carol, last year's film adapted from Highsmith's novella The Price of Salt.
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He simply decided that once Trump had become the Republican Party nominee that what he wanted to do was support the Republican Party nominee's presidential campaign, even though the nominee is a con artist who spent his entire career sticking it to the little guy.
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But when Suh texted Barker to tell her they were arriving—after the group had driven from Riverside, California to Big Bear—Barker denied that she had agreed to the additional guests, then called Suh a con artist before berating her with racist remarks.
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Goffard's reporting went on to become a successful podcast, aptly titled Dirty John and later a TV series on Bravo starring Eric Bana as Meehan, and Connie Britton as Debra Newell, an unassuming woman whose life is turned upside down by the ruthless con artist.
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Andrea Constand withstood a defense cross-examination that sought to expose her as a con artist who set Cosby up, leaving the witness stand at his retrial without budging from her allegation that he drugged and molested her at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004.
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Reagan told America the story of Linda Taylor, a Chicago con artist who had, in fact, cheated the government of $22012,21993 by 1976, using four aliases (though he claimed she used "80 names"), wearing a fur while driving a Cadillac to receive public assistance.
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Along with the shock of the relationship's demise, the outrageous terms of the divorce made news (Isaacs, who, according to Blige, was both emotionally abusive and unfaithful to her, has reportedly asked for more than $21968,23 per month; Blige called him a "con artist").
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DSCC spokeswoman Sadie Weiner said Rubio has an "impossible record" to defend, citing his missed votes, support for Trump -- whom Rubio himself once called a "con artist" who should not have access to the country's nuclear codes -- and his opposition to the gun bill.
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At Mr. Cosby's retrial, in the same courthouse and before the same judge, a new defense team argued unsuccessfully that Ms. Constand, now 45, was a desperate "con artist" with financial problems who steadily worked her famous but lonely mark for a lucrative payday.
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In the days beforehand, the senator from Florida took Mr Trump apart in a televised debate, then ridiculed him on the campaign as a con artist, who quite possibly wet his trousers and whose fondness for fake tan promised to "make America orange again".
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In the season 2 premiere of TNT's thriller Good Behavior, con artist Letty (Michelle Dockery) attempts to impress an affluent new neighbor, played by Laura Bell Bundy, by inventing a backstory for her hit man boyfriend Javier (Juan Diego Botto) which involves Gwyneth Paltrow.
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The first question of the night was about former presidential candidate and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who, earlier that day, decried Trump as the death toll of American democracy; a con artist who would plunge the nation into recession, and maybe even World War III.
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Yost and Dinner are clearly having fun with the con artist genre, with Yost in particular bringing his trademark snipe-y dialogue and love of richly detailed monologues to his scripts and Dinner unfurling many of the show's best cons in a smart, restrained fashion.
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A political party would have been hijacked by a con artist and driven to ruin in a bizarre and barely explicable way, and CPAC 2017 would be a perfect moment to reflect on how the cause of the American conservative movement had become a racket.
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To understand how a seemingly rational person like Barney — and dozens of others — could be taken in by an inveterate gambler like Schlichter, we asked Konnikova to help get us into the head of a con artist and show us what tricks to look for.
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Nevertheless, it wasn't until one of her victims, Rachel Deloache Williams, a photo editor at Vanity Fair, published a riveting essay in April about being taken advantage of — to the tune of $62,000 out of her pocket — by Delvey that her con artist ways came to light.
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He doesn't tell Shadow his true identity at first, but anyone with an eye for religious symbolism — and false eyes — can likely deduce that the canny old con artist is Odin, who uses his years of knowledge to his advantage when it comes to tricking unsuspecting mortals.
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As it turns out, it was — on Friday it was announced that Shonda Rhimes, who'd already dipped a toe into con artist fantasies with her short-lived ABC show The Catch, would be bringing Delvey's story to streaming as the first series in Rhimes' landmark Netflix deal.
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NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Lawyers for Bill Cosby attacked his accuser, Andrea Constand, during closing arguments in his sexual assault retrial Tuesday, calling her a "con artist" and asking jurors to ignore the social changes occurring outside the courtroom so they could focus on the case before them.
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"It's clear now that if we're going to save the Republican Party from being taken over by a con artist, we're going to have to start making the case more aggressively," Mr. Rubio said before appearing at a rally at a high school football stadium near Atlanta.
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NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby's lawyers began a combative defense of the entertainer at his retrial on sexual assault charges here Tuesday, portraying Mr. Cosby as the lonely victim of a desperate "con artist" with financial problems who was steadily working her famous mark for a big payday.
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James O'Keefe: Notorious con artist But first, for those of you unfamiliar with James O'Keefe and his misnamed "Project Veritas," here's a helpful recap: James O'Keefe is a notorious con man whose infamy arises from his addiction to pulling the same media stunts, over and over again.
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And, like Romney's gambit, the tactic of the night was to frame Trump as a con artist, a fraudster, a liar; both a shady businessman and the kind of candidate who is nowhere near as tough, straight-talking, or sharp as he has presented himself thus far.
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Lovestruck, wealthy women weren't the only people targeted by notorious con artist John Meehan: The criminal who seduced women only to prey on them — and was nicknamed "Dirty John" — tried to have the female detective who put him behind bars in 2013 killed in exchange for $10,143.
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The president, grinning boyishly, insisting he did the right thing, boasting about having never delivered a personal apology to the young intern he once took advantage of in the Oval Office -- is like watching a con artist brag about pulling one over on an unsuspecting family.
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In fact, this finale gave Cersei a far bigger spotlight than I expected it would: She got to be the star of the Dragonpit stage, the con artist in her confrontation with Tyrion, and then grit her teeth as she nearly had the Mountain take out Jaime.
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Here's a look at what's happened in the two weeks of the retrial: Defense paints Constand as a 'con artist' The core of the case against Cosby came from Andrea Constand, who said Cosby drugged her and then assaulted her at his home in January 1003.
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To these people, Trump's "Make America Great Again" is not the empty rhetoric of a media-savvy con artist from Queens but a last-ditch rallying cry for the soul of a changing land where minorities will be the majority by the middle of the century.
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Pretension is often assumed to be someone's deliberate attempt to pull a fast one, to consciously be a poseur, a con-artist, a faker, and yet in so many instances, what one person regards as pretentious is another person's genuine enthusiasm or way of expressing themselves.
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NIGERIAN PRINCE Email scams are just the beginning in the Nigerian-American filmmaker Faraday Okoro's first feature, about an American teenager (Antonio J. Bell) who is sent to live with his aunt in Nigeria and can't resist the lure of his con artist cousin (Chinaza Uche).
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Lopez, who is receiving Oscar buzz for the role of a stripper-turned-con artist, turned heads earlier this week when she hit the Versace runway wearing an even sexier version of her iconic jungle-print dress, 20 years after she wore it to the Grammys.
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The trial of a career con artist who pretended to be a military veteran to lease a luxury car with stolen funds from a counterfeit check scheme came to a close on Monday, as the two sides offered sharply different interpretations of the evidence during summations.
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In a subtle acquiescence to his campaign of demagoguery, they warned Republican voters not to be taken in by his appeals to their fears and biases—not because their fears and biases are unfounded, but because, as a con artist, he couldn't be counted on to actually address them.
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Among the many items he has retrieved on behalf of banks and other clients over his 3603-year career: a celebrity's yacht from Cabo San Lucas, a Hertz rental car that a Russian tourist left in Cancun, and a Ferrari that a con artist abandoned in Mexico City.
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In the same week a team of Russian prank callers duped Secretary of Energy Rick Perry into a conversation about pig poop, a con artist in the UK managed to impersonate top Trump administration officials and trick his "colleagues" into responding to a series of bogus emails, CNN reports.
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This time around, the jury didn't buy it when Cosby and his lawyers tried to shame and discredit Constand in the most stereotypical and sexist terms, describing her as a gold-digger and a con artist who had deliberately tried to set up Cosby for a big payday.
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Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who has called Donald J. Trump a con artist, a faux conservative and a failed businessman with an aura of success that is as phony as his tan, insisted Friday that he would vote for Mr. Trump if he became the Republican nominee.
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Now that Shawkat is a much more experienced actor, she's turned Maeby Funke into a two-bit con artist as adept as any in the Bluth family, and Will Arnett has somehow become even more pathetic as oldest brother Gob, even if the storytelling sometimes lets him down.
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Seeing Annie as a Long Island housewife trying to steal a lemur, or as a con artist interrupting a seance, or as a half-elven ranger in a generic fantasy kingdom gives us different sides of the actual Annie's persona and lets Stone have a lot of fun.
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Obama's convention speech in Philadelphia framed the 2016 election in a very Obama way: the audacity of hope over the politics of fear, optimism over darkness, solutions over slogans, togetherness over division, a supremely qualified public servant in Hillary Clinton over an amateur-hour con artist in Donald Trump.
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Either she is telling the truth when she calls Trump "a racist, a bigot, and a misogynist" in serious mental decline, or the Trump campaign's former director of African-American outreach, a woman frequently called upon to testify to Trump's lack of racism, is a lying con artist.
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In that final moment, when Kim feels so very far away from Jimmy and even from us, the show pulls back the camera just enough to reveal something both she and we should have realized long ago: When you become this close to a con artist, you might get conned yourself.
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The Netflix project will adapt New York Magazine's story on Delvey, also known as the "SoHo Grifter," Anna Sorokin was a con artist who scammed banks and businesses throughout the New York social scene for years by claiming to be a wealthy German heiress under the fake name Anna Delvey.
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There's a touch of L.A. noir in the way Joe obtains his new identity (stolen from a con artist who's entertainingly played by Robin Lord Taylor of "Gotham"), and in the latter stages of the season, Joe's tangential involvement in a movie project becomes a canny symbol for the show itself.
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Other people who committed crimes other than lying to Congress and have testified before the body include Frank Costello, the mafia boss, in 1951; Joseph Michael Valachi, a mobster, in 1963; and Frank Abagnale, the former con artist and subject of Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can," in 2017.
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"Then there's the all mighty powerful ones like Mr. Khan, which is a con artist himself, and he uses the death of his son, who's an American soldier, which we respect and honor, and he uses that to go after Trump, which I found very distasteful," LePage said in a radio interview.
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" It was common during 2016 for Republican senators to be sharply critical of Trump — Marco Rubio (R-FL) called him a "con artist," and Ted Cruz (R-TX) called him "totally amoral," while according to Lindsey Graham (R-SC), "if we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed [...] and we will deserve it.
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Still, the Hulu film's implication is clear: Jerry Media is acting unethically in (presumably) benefiting from whatever licensing fees Netflix paid for the film, when it played an instrumental role in marketing the Fyre Festival, along with its mastermind/master con artist Billy McFarland and Ja Rule, his business partner at the time.
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For more than a year, Hollywood big shots like Amy Pascal, Kathleen Kennedy and Stacey Snider have been used by the con artist to trick unsuspecting newcomers to the business into traveling the world and spend vast sums of their own money on the promise that they would be reimbursed by her deep pockets.
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Arlie was a fill-in for her mother, who was an emotional manipulator and a con artist and a representation of someone Annie hates, while Linda's journey was to bring Annie face-to-face with the mother of the man who would kill her sister in an attempt to prevent him from ever being born.
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One of the film's most devastating scenes takes place when his character, the compassionate drug dealer Juan, breaks down shortly after talking with "Little" (Alex Hibbert)—you can see the pain on his face, which is why I chose Bateman's performance as con-artist fox Nicholas P. Wilde in Disney's sneakily subversive Zootopia here.
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"Then there's the all mighty powerful ones like Mr. Khan — which is a con artist himself, and he uses the death of his son, who's an American soldier, which we respect and honor, and he uses that to go after Trump, which I found very distasteful," LePage said in a radio interview with Howie Carr.
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Mel Weinberg, the con artist whose greatest hustle was the F.B.I.'s 1978-79 Abscam sting, using phony Arab sheikhs, a yacht in Florida and suitcases of money to snare a senator, six congressmen and other public officials for influence peddling, died on May 30 in a hospital near his home in Titusville, Fla.
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And, along with the Democrats running the most bought-off, tone-deaf, inauthentic candidate in history, Obama's fundamental choice to not fight for progressive legislation, and instead, preach incrementalism—aka, more corporate welfare with crumbs for working people—is one of the major reasons a circus act, con-artist like Donald Trump will be our next president.
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Read about pandemics, or the settlers of the Northwest Territory, or Neville Chamberlain's ill-advised strategy of appeasing Hitler; read a biography of the con artist who gave rise to the loaded term "welfare queen," or settle in with a satire about creative writing programs, or enjoy Elizabeth Gilbert's new historical novel about the world of New York showgirls.
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LAS VEGAS — The father of Stephen Paddock, the man the police identified as the Las Vegas gunman, was a grifter, a con artist, a bank robber and a jail-breaker who spent years on the F.B.I.'s most-wanted list — a life nothing like the 64 years Stephen spent without apparently acquiring even a hint of a police record.
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Despite concerns that it would be anti-Muslim based on the trailer, the series leaves the audience guessing throughout about whether the mysterious figure referred to by some as Al-Masih (Belgian actor Mehdi Dehbi), or Arabic for "the messiah," is really who people believe him to be, or some sort of false prophet and con artist.
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On Wednesday, LePage called Khizr Khan, the father of a slain American soldier, a "con artist" for criticizing Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE at the Democratic National Convention in July.
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No. In 2018, the media was filled with stories of so-called scammers including Elizabeth Holmes, the mastermind behind the failed company Theranos; Billy McFarland, who came up with the failed music festival Fyre Festival; and Anna Delvey, a con artist whose story was told in unending detail by two glossy magazines (including New York magazine, home of The Cut).
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Before the woman fell ill — reporters say she fainted — Rubio was assailing GOP presidential candidate Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE as a con artist perpetrating a fraud upon the Republican electorate.
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Related: Chris Christie Once Mocked Donald Trump for 'You're Fired' Fame — Now He's Endorsing Him Despite Trump's series of wins on Tuesday, Rubio insisted that his recent attacks on the businessman, whom he has called a "con artist" who is trying to take over the Republican Party, are beginning to work, arguing that his campaign is gaining ground as Trump's poll numbers begin to fall.
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More improbably still, a firm called Pixelon threw a $16 million IPO launch party in Las Vegas, with entertainment from the Who, Kiss, Tony Bennett, the Offspring, and Dixie Chicks, before anyone knew that its CEO, Michael Fenne, was really a fugitive con artist named David Kim Stanley and that the clients who spied its revolutionary "broadband" system had actually been looking at RealPlayer.
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But it's not exactly outlandish (or unpopular) for a modern person to note that many of the systems she encounters have been carefully constructed to extract maximum profits, to sustain themselves, to get what they can while the getting is good — not unusual for a modern person to suspect it would be easier to deal with an actual con artist than with Wells Fargo or a budget health-insurance company.
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Schmidt, one of the president's staunchest critics at MSNBC, also slammed Melania TrumpMelania TrumpEx-Melania Trump adviser raised concerns of excessive inauguration spending weeks before events: CNN The Hill's Morning Report - Trump moves green cards, citizenship away from poor, low-skilled White House seeks volunteers, musicians for Christmas celebrations MORE on Monday, calling the first lady "a con artist" after she said "kindness, compassion and positivity are very important traits in life" during a speech at the Students Against Destructive Decisions' annual conference in Tyson's Corner, Va. Shhhhh.
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